Director : Alexandre Arcady
Actors : Antoine de Caunes, Samy Naceri, Mathilda May, Nozha Khouadra, Saïd Amadis, Pierre Vaneck, Wadeck Stanczak, François-Xavier Noah, Jean-Claude Goros (de), Dora Doll, Elsa Zylberstein, Raphaël Lenglet, Matthias Van Khache, Marie Guillard
Feature film, Fiction
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
French release : 4/12/00
Runtime : 1h 50mn
Current status : Released
Official website : www.la-bas.net/
Associate production company : Alexandre Films
Co-production : StudioCanal, TF1 Films Production
French distribution : Bac Films
Film export/Foreign Sales : StudioCanal

Pierre Nivel, now the toop newsreader in France, was seventeen when he left Algeria during the war of independence. Along with the land of his childhood, he also left behind his neighbor and first love, Leila. Now, thirty years later, Leila needs Pierre’s help to save her daughter Amina, a spirited young woman, from marriage to the leader of one fundamentalist groups. And so, in spite of the danger, Pierre returns to Algiers, a city where he is now a stranger. His journey back in time will allow him to keep the promise made to Leila at the harbor gates thirty years earlier.

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